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Actors: Jean Poiret, Bernadette Laffont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Luc Bideau
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Inspector Lavardin |
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INSPECTOR LAVARDIN (Inspecteur Lavardin) is a movie written and directed by Claude Chabrol in 1986. After COP AU VIN in 1985, this is the second Chabrol picture featuring the cynical policeman Lavardin.
The corpse of Raoul Mons, a catholic writer, has just been found on the beach and Lavardin is asked to help the local police. He will be somewhat surprised when he meets Raoul Mons's widow who happens to be Bernadette Lafont, the woman he was profoundly in love with some twenty years before.
But Lavardin doesn't have much time to feel pity for himself as the investigation looks rather difficult. Everybody lie or seem to be the perfect guilty party. The only problem for Lavardin is that he can't figure out the motive for the crime.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Inspector Lavardin |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- relative
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, small
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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